A different, non-footballing topic for a moment.
I am now retired, so as you can imagine getting on a bit, and I decided to check on my life expectancy, using this handy online calculator:
http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/life-age-expectancy-calculator.aspx
Its a bit of a shocker, It was my birthday recently, I don't want to give away my age but filled in the form and a few variables (like I like a glass of wine regularly, for example). Frighteningly, if I was:
age 80 - my life expectancy would only be 84
age 70 - my life expectancy would only be 79
age 60 - my life expectancy would only be 76
I have managed to depress myself, though of course these are just averages, and take heart - if you happen to know someone (a close relative perhaps) at those ages, they may live a lot lot longer than the average.
My Life expectancy
posted on 19/1/12
That's what you get for posting on a football forum!
If you're interested in life expectancy, you'll like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
This is the sort of stuff I help people do
posted on 19/1/12
Jonty, can you come up with a formula to tell us how many cr@p players we have to employ before we find a decent one?
posted on 19/1/12
what a subject... I'd rather not know, I'm in my 30's and by the time I'm 60 my sons can do the work - I want to be growing olives and tomatoes in Sicily by that time, advising from a far
posted on 19/1/12
Perth.. about 70 players seems about right
posted on 19/1/12
Perth, I guess the important factors in such an algorithm would be (in no particular order)
How much is in it for Gwyn Williams
How many clubs have turned the player down first
Has the player a long enough name to increase shirt name revenues
Has the player got an attractive wife (Grayson seems to prefer blondes)
Has the player very little experience at playing in the Championship
Do we already have 5 players in that players chosen position
posted on 19/1/12
And would that player be prepared to say 'there were other clubs interested in me (Crewe) but as soon as I heard Leeds were interested it was no contest'
posted on 19/1/12
They have to be wowed by the facilities
They have to be wowed by the history
They have to have no idea of who the Revie team were (Kasper last season)
They have to be able to get injured before their debut
They have to have played less than 10 games in last 5 years
posted on 19/1/12
Only one you missed I can think of: "life long Leeds fan despite having given the obviously erroneous impression they were also a life long fan of the last 4 previous clubs they played for"
posted on 19/1/12
How about another equation to figure out the number of games a player has to play before SG realises he's been duped into signing a donkey / has been etc.
posted on 19/1/12
you don't need a maths formula for that one, Perth, just the infinity symbol